John Edward Casida (1929–2018)

Casida Receives International Wolf Prize

Approximately 5% of all cancers develop in the mucosa of the head and neck area (Boyle et al., 1990). A substantial number of these patients present at a moment that curative treatment is possible, due to the fact that many head and neck cancers cause complaints in an early stage. The prognosis of TINO and T2NO glottic laryngeal cancer, for instance, is in the order of 90 and 70% 5 year surviva...

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Hypophysitis Edward

Hypophysitis is an uncommon inflammatory condition that may affect the pituitary gland and stalk. Patients often present with varying degrees of hypopituitarism. The diagnosis is often made presumptively based on clinical history and biochemical data but may also be supported by magnetic resonance imaging. Therapy is generally supportive in nature but may require surgery for pathological diagno...

Edward Fawcett

On September 21st, Professor Fawcett, who for forty-one years held the Chair of Anatomy in the University College, and University of Bristol, died suddenly while walking in the street. He had occupied a preeminent place in the work of the University and in the affections of many generations of medical students. He came to Bristol as a young man in 1893, four years after he had qualified at Edin...

Edward Jenner

cow-pox of one human being from another: the first of a long series of protective inoculations upon which, for a hundred years, man has been dependent for his protection against one of the most terrible disease^ to which he is exposed. From this inoculation has grown our national system of vaccination, in the creation of which the name of this Society and its former president, Edward Seaton, wi...